The War on Spam

If you could DDOS a spammer would you do it? That sentiment is exactly what Lycos Europe is counting on. They're pushing a new distributed computing screensaver (aptly titled "Make Love Not Spam") that doesn't look for extraterrestrial signals, or search for a cure to parkinsons, no it DDOSs spammers. Now, before you click here to check it out, remember, while this is very tempting, you will be using your personal bandwidth to attack the spammers. By using this, you will be contributing to wasted packet traffic on the Internet. However, it might just feel good to get back at those losers, even if temporarily. My trigger finger's getting itchy, but I'm not ready to sacrifice my bandwidth for a sweet bit of revenge--yet.



See The Register article here.



- Hutch



UPDATE: Looks like the makelovenotspam.com site got DDOSed by the spammers, so things are on hold. This war is just heating up.